Comments for Voter ID Law Fraud at http://www.pacificfreepress.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.pacificfreepress.com Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:04:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/2132-voter-id-law-fraud.html#comment-1692 Mr. Epps, I respect your position on this hotly contested issue (and I find your title to be quite ironic), but I question whether journalists are fully reporting the story. Take, for instance, your nod to the Missouri counterpart of the ID-law currently under review: To claim that MO's law was "the most restrictive in the country" is off base. The law was so stricken not because it expressly violated the MO constitution, as you suggest, but instead, because it was found to incidentially burden the right to vote. Despite having 'mobile offices' providing the free, in-home photo ID service, the Court found the underlying costs unacceptable. MO's voter-ID law is not, then, at all dissimilar from the revised GA law permitted to stand. That misrepresentation seems intentionally designed to create the impression that: (a) MO's law was politically driven; & (b) had it not been so stricken, a political injustice would have resulted. Neither is true. Additionally, data on existing voter fraud cannot be generated because, as an illegal activity, it usually goes unreported. Parallel in logic would be to disclaim the necessity of welfare fraud laws on grounds that there are few instances of such fraud. It is a circular argument, and it ought not be defended. - Cory H. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:43:50 +0100